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What's the most uncomfortable movie or TV scene you've ever seen?

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CrankyFrankyHoot · 16/10/2020 18:06

Uncomfortable can mean anything, scary, sad, creepy, gory etc...

I was just watching AHS this afternoon, the Cult season and there is a scene with a nail gun (if you've seen it you'll know!).

I am really not a squeamish person but this scene just made me go cold, I was about to fast forward it before it finished.

It wasn't even the most gruesome thing I've seen on TV/a movie before but the whole idea just made me feel really uncomfortable and like I was really horrible for watching it if that makes sense?

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SallyTimms · 16/10/2020 23:38

@PeachestheFlamingo

Ha!The Greasy Strangler! Glad someone else has seen it and can't quite get their head round it! It's the weirdest stupidest biggest pile of bollocks I have ever seen. DH's friend recommended it saying it was hilarious he couldn't stop laughing... But this is also the man who picked Wolf Creek as a family film!

JalapenoDave · 16/10/2020 23:40

I am a seasoned horror film fan and enthusiast. But Eden Lake...wow, that film made me uncomfortable every time I watched it.

GuyFawkesHadTheRightIdea · 16/10/2020 23:44

Eden Lake for me. Never, ever again. If you know it you'll know why.

LifeInAHamsterWheel · 16/10/2020 23:48

God, lots of those already mentioned Sad why do we watch such awful stuff??

For me, since we've only watched it recently it's the scene in Game of Thrones where Stannis Barathian's little girl is burned alive at the stake.

notshitonyourshow · 16/10/2020 23:48

a serbian film- don't google!!!!!

DaftyD · 16/10/2020 23:49

Scum is awful, really really awful. There are some morally good characters in it but the inhumanity of the system is horrendous.

And I cried like a bairn at City of God when the gang leader tells the child to decide which body part he will be shot in, hand or foot, and the child holds out his hand. He is so young that his hand is still chubby.

Although the worst of it is that in the film, the gangster tells the child not to look behind him when he sends him off, and he leaves, although he is shot but he lives. But in the real life event that particular segment is based on the child did look back, and the gangster killed him.

Wolf creek isn't based in rl btw, it's just a marketing thing. Also very overblown.

Greenglassteacup · 16/10/2020 23:50

Rape scene in this is England

DifficultPifcultLemonDifficult · 16/10/2020 23:52

Why on earth should young women be made to watch horrific rape scenes, over and over again Confused what a really bizarre things to say Isthisnothing

purpleme12 · 16/10/2020 23:53

Agree with all the people saying the rape scene in This is England series.
I don't think that anything has made me uncomfortable like that

.... But the film and all the This is England series are amazing I love them I love the characters

Rebeccasmoonnecklace · 17/10/2020 00:01

I’ve been affected by many of the scenes mentioned in films and tv shows already discussed.

For me personally the things I’ve watched that have upset me the most has been news footage of people jumping from the Twin Towers on 9/11, I couldn’t deal with that and had to leave the room as I was too traumatised thinking of their thoughts whilst jumping, it was horrific. Also JFK’s assassination and Jackie Kennedy scrambling to get out the back of the car.

QueenOfPain · 17/10/2020 00:03

That scene from American History X.

The rape scene in Boys Don’t Cry and the one in This Is England.

LooksLikeImStuckHere · 17/10/2020 00:14

Another vote for American History X. That scene has stayed with me for years. Just awful.

draughtycatflap · 17/10/2020 00:19

Ann Widdecombe on Strictly pretending to be a decent human being.

purpleme12 · 17/10/2020 00:35

The first time I heard about The Human Centipede was on Mumsnet and I vowed never to watch it! Sounds disgusting!

I remember watching No Child of Mine when it was Tele! I've never heard anyone mention it till now! I can't remember it in detail but I remember thinking it was amazing if that makes sense in the horrible topic. I felt what she was feeling

There was one person who mentioned Nocturnal Animals... What was the point of this film?? I haven't even seen it but I've read the book and I just don't get it. What is the point of it?? Can someone enlighten me what I'm missing??

Ilovegreentomatoes · 17/10/2020 00:40

Dead man's shoes and the way the men treat the mentally disabled guy is really upsetting.
The film is tough to watch but very thought provoking, great acting and scenery of the yorkshire landscape.

purpleme12 · 17/10/2020 00:45

Oh my god I've got another one though
The Skin I Live In - Pedro Almodovar film
Really really disturbing
He traps a man and gives him surgery to make him into a woman by force he doesn't agree to this
It is really disturbing, more disturbing that my post gives credit
Has anyone seen this??
I've seen some of his other films but they weren't like this and if I knew this film was actually going to be like this I wouldn't have watched it!

Nikki360 · 17/10/2020 00:45

The Accused it was awful. An amazing actress but it's disturbing. I can't watch violent films or films that involve rape etc. I happened to see a bit of game of thrones changing channels one night and it was a rake scene. It was horrible. I don't understand why woman watch these films and programmes?

purpleme12 · 17/10/2020 00:49

It's funny cos everyone raves about The Handmaid's Tale and Game of Thrones etc but I hear about some disturbing stuff in them and it puts me off watching them
(I've not watched any of those)

Got99ProblemsBut · 17/10/2020 00:53

Literally came here to say the horse from Neverending Story and forgot his name so got too embarrassed to say Blush thanks for the reminders and it was so traumatic as a child!

Nat6999 · 17/10/2020 00:54

The rape in This is England & when Lol fights off her dad & kills him to defend herself. This is England was filmed on the estate i used to live on, this made it feel more real to watch.

QuestionableMouse · 17/10/2020 01:08

@Silversun83

The rape and torture scenes in the final episodes of series one of Outlander.
Yep, that's what I was going to post. I read some behind the scenes stuff and the actors really struggled making it because the set was so awful.
Valkadin · 17/10/2020 01:14

City of Life and death based on real events, the rape of Nanking and how women were forced in to sexual slavery by the Japanese army, state sanctioned rape on a mass scale. A few of these comfort women are still alive today. Survivors and the Chinese population were outraged as the film was seen as too tame. Japan only apologised a few years ago.

Valkadin · 17/10/2020 01:16

Also Murdered by my boyfriend, a televised one off episode like a televised play about domestic violence based on the real life story and murder of a young woman in Nottingham.

yourhairiswinterfire · 17/10/2020 01:20

Dead man's shoes and the way the men treat the mentally disabled guy is really upsetting.

I was coming to say this. My brother has severe LD's and he is the spitting image of the Anthony character too. The film haunted me for weeks, I couldn't sleep properly.

Too close to home, I could easily imagine my brother in that situation and him thinking those bastards were his friends Sad

Bookaholic73 · 17/10/2020 01:30

@TidyDancer

When Glenn met Lucille in The Walking Dead. I still don't think I'm over it tbh.
Yes, that was brutal. Poor Glenn.